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precepts? Is it possible, therefore, to hold as provisions for the Hereafter the
knowledge of the forms that divorce might take, either zihar or by li‟an, of
contracts involving immediate payment of the price and admitting delay in the
delivery of the article purchased (salam) of hire, rental, and lease (ijarah), and of
money changing (sarf)? Anyone who acquires the knowledge of these things,
hoping to draw nearer to Allah, would certainly be mad. Indeed, nothing but
engaging body and soul in the service of Allah and His worship would draw
people nearer to Allah; and nobility lies in knowing how to accomplish these
deeds.
If you should say; “Why have you regarded medicine and jurisprudence in the
same way when medicine pertains to the affairs of this world, namely, the welfare
of the body, while upon jurisprudence in the same way when medicine pertains to
the affairs of this world, namely, the welfare of the body, while upon
jurisprudence depends the welfare of religion; and furthermore does not this
equal regard of the two violate the public consensus of opinion among all
Muslims?” Then know that such a treatment is not necessary and in fact the two
sciences differ. Jurisprudence is superior to medicine on three counts: first,
because it is sacred knowledge, and, unlike medicine, which is not sacred
knowledge of the forms that divorce might take, either zihar or by li‟an, of
contracts involving immediate payment of the price and admitting delay in the
delivery of the article purchased (salam) of hire, rental, and lease (ijarah), and of
money changing (sarf)? Anyone who acquires the knowledge of these things,
hoping to draw nearer to Allah, would certainly be mad. Indeed, nothing but
engaging body and soul in the service of Allah and His worship would draw
people nearer to Allah; and nobility lies in knowing how to accomplish these
deeds.
If you should say; “Why have you regarded medicine and jurisprudence in the
same way when medicine pertains to the affairs of this world, namely, the welfare
of the body, while upon jurisprudence in the same way when medicine pertains to
the affairs of this world, namely, the welfare of the body, while upon
jurisprudence depends the welfare of religion; and furthermore does not this
equal regard of the two violate the public consensus of opinion among all
Muslims?” Then know that such a treatment is not necessary and in fact the two
sciences differ. Jurisprudence is superior to medicine on three counts: first,
because it is sacred knowledge, and, unlike medicine, which is not sacred